Photographer's Note

A very common scene around Adhemar de Barros park and Cavalinho Branco Dam. People riding horses. Here the guy was riding his horse very slowly like enjoying his simple life. In the background a huge mansion (I saw a lot of this big houses there) resulting ina very contrasting view.

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a mammal, a subspecies of the family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began to domesticate horses around 4000 BCE, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BCE. Although most horses today are domesticated, there are still endangered populations of the Przewalski's Horse, the only remaining true wild horse, as well as more common populations of feral horses which live in the wild but are descended from domesticated ancestors. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior.